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Transits
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Invites students, teachers, and amateur astronomers to participate in studies of the transit of 2004.
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Description of the event, explanation of timing, illustrations including "black drop effect".
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NASA/Goddard page with explanations and photographs. Includes detailed information about upcoming events and some history.
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Information and resources for students, educators, museums, scientists and amateur astronomers. Animations, facts, graphs, maps, historical articles, and pointers to webcasts and other ways to view the transit.
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BBC News article anticipating the 2003 transit.
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Brief description with diagrams of the 2004 and 2012 transits as seen from Guernsey.
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Webcam announcement from Worth Hill Observatory in the UK.
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Safety, viewing techniques, FAQ, and historic expeditions pertaining to this June 8, 2004 event.
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A table showing predicted time and path of the transit for various locations throughout the world. In PDF format from the US Naval Observatory.
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Brief description of the upcoming transits, with information about visibility in Australia and New Zealand.
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The European Southern Observatory describes and invites participation in a project to reenact the determination of the solar parallax using a transit of Venus.
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